Monday, June 1, 2015

Hurricane season starts today!

Dear
family,

The header
says it all.

We have
had so many storms the past week. Yesterday for relief society/priesthood
combined we just talked about getting emergency kits together. Luckily, I have
one that will last me a few days that I've been accumulating. But I still am
scared of thunder, and now I hear it almost every day :(

Sorry, I
forgot my camera cord so no pics again!

I am
excited because today we are having a summer Christmas party at the beach in
St. Petersburg with all the missionaries from the whole mission! Should be fun
if a storm doesn't come. Its called Fort Desoto beach, look it up because its
on an island and is pretty surrounded by water, I am so lucky! :)

Highlights:

We trying
to help a lady in our ward clean up her apartment a bit for inspections
but...after an hour of cleaning one corner it didn't look like we did much. She
is technically categorized as a hoarder. But I have found that I love cleaning
and organizing so it was still fun.

Just so
you know, the handbook 2, Administering to the Church, basically answers any
question you have.

Brother
Scribner is doing great, he has committed to being baptized but we are setting
a date with him on Tuesday. He really just needs to come to church and stop
drinking coffee. He feels the spirit though and is gaining a testimony of the
Book of Mormon. Exciting!

I almost
died. Not joking this time. We were crossing Hillsborough on our bikes when it
was our turn and this huge like Ford truck was turning left and usually they
slow down and wait for us (because we have the right away) and I was already
crossing but no, it sped up!!!! By the grace of God, it barely missed me and it
didn't even slow down when it saw that it almost killed a biker. It was scary.
I saw my life flash before my eyes. Sister Vanderhoff saw my life flash before
her eyes, luckily she was far enough behind me that it didn't almost hit her
too. Sorry mom, I usually am safe but Tampa has crazy drivers.

We had one
of our sister training leaders come with us on Friday to our
appointments. It was Sister Sackley, she came out with me from the MTC but was
in the other district. It was good, I learned a lot from her, she's the one
from Beaverton. My other stl is sister Tawzer, also from Beaverton but just
grew up a little there. Trio's are hard though, we scared some potential
investigators.

That's
about it! My birthday is in two days, the big 20! I will be in Florida my whole
20th year of life! :)

Love you
all, I know the Book of Mormon is true and if you don't then go read it. :)